To Grandmother’s house we go!

People travel in the holiday season, it’s a fact. I however have never traveled outside of New York around this time of year (my entire family lives in the Capital District) that is until this year when I embarked on a journey with-my best friend-to the country music capital of the world, Nashville, Tennessee to see her grandmother and father for New Years.

In the car on our way through!

As I sit here in Nashville, I can look back and laugh at the 20 hour drive it took to get here and all the things that went wrong. Let me be the first to tell you, even the iPhone-as advanced as it is- cannot do things like tell you you misplaced your wallet. No, those things you learn the hard way by driving to Kingston and frantically searching the car for something you left an hour away at home. The iPhone did however help Elizabeth and I navigate our way through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, and into Tennessee.

Mountains in Virginia!

Nashville is very beautiful, and there is so much to do! There is always someone strumming a guitar at least ten feet in proximitygreeting you with a smile on their face and a nice welcome, “Howdy!”

It was quite the journey- my first ever away from my parents for approximately an entire week- but I found I have learned quite a lot already about getting along on my own. It will be a nice way to bring in the New Year, with all the first time things I am doing like and going on a road trip across the country, and even taking a plane back to Albany all by myself.